Reeva (restaurant)
| Reeva Cafe y Cocina a la Leña | |
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| Established | April 2022 |
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| Food type | Latin American |
| City | Portland |
| County | Multnomah |
| State | Oregon |
| Country | United States |
Reeva Cafe y Cocina a la Leña, or simply Reeva, is a restaurant in Portland, Oregon, United States. The Latino-owned business was established by Roberto Hernandez Guerrero and Roseva Alcerro in 2022. It serves Neapolitan pizzas with Latin American ingredients, among other dishes. Reeva has garnered a positive reception and was named one of Portland's best new food carts by The Oregonian and Eater Portland.
Description
[edit]The Latino-owned restaurant Reeva operates from a food cart on Sandy Boulevard in northeast Portland's Roseway neighborhood.[1] A nearby courtyard has tables made from oak barrels as well as potted plants.[2] Influenced by Honduran, Italian, Mexican, and Peruvian cuisines,[3] Reeva serves Neapolitan pizzas with ingredients such as jalapeño, pepperoni, Mama Lil's Peppers, pesto, and red onion.[4] Other special pizzas have used burrata, cactus chimichurri, and prosciutto.[2] The Machu pizza has a salsa Hauncaína base and uses Peruvian ingredients such as a sauce with cheese and chilis. The menu includes a "pizzaleada", based on the Honduran baleada with refried beans, cheese, and sour cream.[5][6]
The restaurant has also served baked chilaquiles, steak and eggs, and huevos rotos, which has egg, wood-fired potatoes, arugula, and romesco. Coffee is on the breakfast menu;[5] among espresso drinks are cafe con leches and cortados.[7] The Green G.O.A.T. was a smoothie with fermented coconut yogurt, fruit, ginger, seasonal greens, lime, and mint.[8]
History
[edit]Spouses Roberto Hernandez Guerrero and Roseva Alcerro started Reeva as a food cart in April 2022.[5] As of 2023, Reeva was one of two pizzerias in Portland serving portafoglio pizza.[9]
Reception
[edit]Reeva ranked second in The Oregonian's list of Portland's best new food carts of 2022.[10] In his list of the ten best dishes he ate in the city in 2022, the newspaper's Micheal Russell ranked the pizzaleada sixth and wrote, "in its basic form, the combination of chewy dough, melted mozzarella, sour cream (and perhaps the addition of a flash-cooked egg), will be one of the tastiest things you eat this year".[11]
The business won in the Best New Food Cart of Eater Portland's annual Eater Awards in 2022. The website's Janey Wong included Reeva in a 2023 list of twelve "remarkable" restaurants in the Rose City Park and Roseway neighborhoods,[7] and Brooke Jackson-Glidden and Rebecca Roland included the business in a 2024 overview of the best pizzas in the Portland metropolitan area.[4] Wong and Nick Woo also included Reeva in the website's 2024 guide to Portland's "most outstanding" food carts.[12]
In 2023, Katherine Chew Hamilton included the Huitlacoche pizza in Portland Monthly's overview of the city's rarest regional dishes[3] and Lindsay D. Mattison ranked the business number twenty in Tasting Table's list of Portland's best pizza.[13] Krista Garcia included Reeva in The Infatuation's 2024 list of the city's best food carts.[2]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ Graves, Mark. "Reeva Cafe y Cocina a la Leña, a food cart located in on Sandy Blvd. in NE Portland, Sept. 4, 2022". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on 2024-01-01. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
- ^ a b c "The 18 Best Food Carts In Portland 2024 - Portland, OR". The Infatuation. 2024-05-24. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
- ^ a b "Where to Find Portland's Rarest Regional Dishes". Portland Monthly. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
- ^ a b Jackson-Glidden, Brooke (2016-08-05). "Where to Find the Best Pizzas in Portland and Beyond". Eater Portland. Archived from the original on 2024-08-31. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
- ^ a b c Russell, Michael (2022-05-05). "Reeva, with flavors from Honduras to Peru, ranks among Portland's best wood-fired pizzerias". The Oregonian. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
- ^ "Reeva is a new Northeast Portland food truck serving wood-fired pizzas and more". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on 2022-05-14. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
- ^ a b Wong, Janey (2023-08-07). "12 Remarkable Restaurants in Roseway and Rose City Park". Eater Portland. Archived from the original on 2024-06-16. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
- ^ "Roseway Is Packed With Places to Discover Right in the Heart of Sandy Boulevard". Willamette Week. 2024-05-29. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
- ^ Russell, Michael (2023-08-15). "Upcoming Portland pizzeria Grana specializes in Naples-style folded pizzas. Rick Steves is to thank". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on 2024-07-05. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
- ^ "Portland's best new food carts of 2022". The Oregonian. 2022-09-13. Archived from the original on 2024-06-14. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
- ^ Russell, Michael (2022-12-22). "Portland's 10 best dishes of 2022". The Oregonian. Archived from the original on 2024-12-01. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
- ^ Woo, Nick (2015-06-10). "A Guide to Portland's Most Outstanding Food Carts". Eater Portland. Archived from the original on 2021-09-18. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
- ^ Mattison, Lindsay D. (2023-05-08). "The Absolute Best Pizza In Portland, Ranked". Tasting Table. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
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